Hi Harish.
From last night meeting, an issue was raised regarding the invitation
letter. While visitors from the countries are allowed to enter Malaysia without referral for 30 days, the process of applying visa will be more difficult than applying with referral. Therefore it would be beneficial for us to send them an invitation letter.
Could we get RH to provide it?. Thanks!.
Hi, In my opinion,
I would suggest getting the Malaysian govt to handle this.
Check on Wisma Putra & Issuance of Good Conduct Certificate.
http://www.kln.gov.my/web/guest/in-malaysia?p_p_id=101_INSTANCE_nvZ0&p_p...
It would go smoother with this.
regards
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 1:47 PM, Gunesh Raj gunesh.raj@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, In my opinion,
I would suggest getting the Malaysian govt to handle this.
Check on Wisma Putra & Issuance of Good Conduct Certificate.
Hi Gunes,
looking for more information in the site leads me to the info page here : https://www.kln.gov.my/ekonsular_on9/skb_english/main_skb.php
and it looks like it requires 2 weeks for processing, application requirements similar to applying a visa (including photos etc), and rm20 processing fee each.
I think its simpler to provide an invitation letter.
Hi, Invitation letter not from the govt won't guarantee a approval at least from our end, What normally was done would be to get the entire list of contributors, apply them as a whole & with the govt cert, it would be easier for them. Remember their country would need to look at it as well, countries like Pakistan for e.g. might have some issues. An invitation letter would only suffice when theres adequate referrals. I recommend this as we have ample time to coordinate, else best to stick with an invitation letter for 2-3 days stay. regards
On Sat, Mar 24, 2012 at 2:09 PM, Gunesh Raj gunesh.raj@gmail.com wrote:
Hi, Invitation letter not from the govt won't guarantee a approval at least from our end,
Hi Gunesh,
at the moment its only india/bangladesh and sri lanka. Several of them had came to Malaysia earlier for Mozilla AsiaCamp, and they said they only need an invitation letter. I can ask from them for a sample from the Mozilla AsiaCamp.
IMO, unless they are having problem to apply with just invitation letter, I dont see the need to request for letter of good conduct. When they are having trouble, then maybe we go for this route, mainly because:
* The process requires us to coordinate to request for details from those involved. * It incurs additional cost
What normally was done would be to get the entire list of contributors, apply them as a whole & with the govt cert, it would be easier for them. Remember their country would need to look at it as well, countries like Pakistan for e.g. might have some issues. An invitation letter would only suffice when theres adequate referrals. I recommend this as we have ample time to coordinate, else best to stick with an invitation letter for 2-3 days stay.
Izhar -
| From last night meeting, an issue was raised regarding the invitation | letter. While visitors from the countries are allowed to enter | Malaysia without referral for 30 days, the process of applying visa | will be more difficult than applying with referral. Therefore it would | be beneficial for us to send them an invitation letter. | | Could we get RH to provide it?. Thanks!.
I will do that today. I think it should have the RH Malaysian postal address on the letterhead and will work with Mansur on it.
We need to have a rapid fire way to generate these letters - ie, as soon as a request is made, the letter should go out automatically. How can we make that happen?
Harish
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Harish Pillay hpillay@redhat.com wrote:
Izhar -
| From last night meeting, an issue was raised regarding the invitation | letter. While visitors from the countries are allowed to enter | Malaysia without referral for 30 days, the process of applying visa | will be more difficult than applying with referral. Therefore it would | be beneficial for us to send them an invitation letter. | | Could we get RH to provide it?. Thanks!.
I will do that today. I think it should have the RH Malaysian postal address on the letterhead and will work with Mansur on it.
We need to have a rapid fire way to generate these letters - ie, as soon as a request is made, the letter should go out automatically. How can we make that happen?
Cool thanks!
In term of rapid fire, I dont think thats needed as we're only planning to send this to those who are sponsored under Fedora funding, and I think we already have all the requests from South Asia.
A ODF template for my team to use would be enough.
FYI,
Invitation letter must be from organization or company or University that registered from Malaysia. In last MozCamp Asia that how we do it to help all the people on board by using OSDC.MY. They for it would be easy to get approval from KLN. I would suggest to get either Redhat Malaysia or APIIT or Inigo to issue the invitation letter otherwise it will be hard to get fast approval but if you have friend work at KLN it would be another issue.
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Mohd Izhar Firdaus Ismail < kagesenshi.87@gmail.com> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 9:00 AM, Harish Pillay hpillay@redhat.com wrote:
Izhar -
| From last night meeting, an issue was raised regarding the invitation | letter. While visitors from the countries are allowed to enter | Malaysia without referral for 30 days, the process of applying visa | will be more difficult than applying with referral. Therefore it would | be beneficial for us to send them an invitation letter. | | Could we get RH to provide it?. Thanks!.
I will do that today. I think it should have the RH Malaysian postal address on the letterhead and will work with Mansur on it.
We need to have a rapid fire way to generate these letters - ie, as soon as a request is made, the letter should go out automatically. How can we make that happen?
Cool thanks!
In term of rapid fire, I dont think thats needed as we're only planning to send this to those who are sponsored under Fedora funding, and I think we already have all the requests from South Asia.
A ODF template for my team to use would be enough.
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 1:39 PM, Mohd Fazli Azran mfazliazran@gmail.com wrote:
FYI,
Invitation letter must be from organization or company or University that registered from Malaysia. In last MozCamp Asia that how we do it to help all the people on board by using OSDC.MY. They for it would be easy to get approval from KLN. I would suggest to get either Redhat Malaysia or APIIT or Inigo to issue the invitation letter otherwise it will be hard to get fast approval but if you have friend work at KLN it would be another issue.
probably it was not clear ... getting it from RH is the current plan :-)
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